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September 13 · Martyrs

Sts. Macrobius

Sts. Macrobius, Gordian and Others

Traditional feast

September 13
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Martyrs

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on September 13 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: By the Greeks on this day. The Martyrology of Jerome and Hrabanus on Sept. 15; the Modem Roman Martyrology on this day. Authority: mention in the Menologies.] There is some confusion about the names of these martyrs, which have undergone changes in the different editions of the Greek menologies, and even the place where they suffered is not clearly fixed. But it seems that some of them were Christians, soldiers probably, banished by Licinius to Tomi in Pontus, where they met with other Christians, Zoticus, Lucian and Heli, and suffered execution by the sword with them. Gordian, however, was cast into a fire, and one named Valerian, whilst weeping and praying over their bodies, died in the attitude of devotion.

Feast days

Feast: September 13

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Macrobius's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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St. Philip

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St. Julian

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St. Maurilius of Angers

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← All 1726 saints in the library
Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.